Aubrey Jaffer <agj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> What is the rationale for mandating exact rationals?
This (from the SRFI document):
> Under R5RS, it is hard to write programs whose arithmetic is
> portable across the above categories, and it is unnecessarily
> difficult even to write programs whose arithmetic is portable
> between different implementations in the same category.
> The portability problems can most easily be solved by requiring all
> implementations to support the full numeric tower.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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